AppImageKit VS cosmopolitan

What you're looking for sounds like AppImages (https://appimage.org/) . I have only used them while downloading games from itch.io, etc. (since i prefer package managers) but they seem to work out of the box on popular distros.

I found a similar issue on github and tried this solution but still getting the same error .

There is AppImage[1], which packs a lot of stuff into a SquashFS filesystem, appends it to the executable, so everything is in one file.

[1] https://appimage.org

All my homies use appimage.

Nah i think yall just hating appimage. Real gold standard.

Although I haven't used plugins feature myself yet, this does sound like the perfect use case for them. Not every patient needs to access every single source. With plugins you can load only the source (or few sources) that they actually need. You can still use something like https://appimage.org/ to give them "a single binary", but will actually contain your slim binary and all the plugins.

appimages. Appimages are similar to flatpaks, exept that they are a file you download and double click to run. Think of them as portable softwares like windows has (portable apps). They are sandboxed too. You can learn more about appimages here

Look at how to bundle various frameworks - eg https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-GTK3-apps

Download AppRun and AppImageTool from https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems.

The reality is a bit different, the work on Python 3.6 was checked into the Cosmopolitan repo and I have been able to use it for production workloads that are in pure python. [0]

As Cosmopolitan Libc has evolved, it has been possible to compile more software without modifications, and that includes latest Python through a project called superconfigure[1].

Last person who tried to reproduce it from scratch did it last week (granted it too them a few days of solid work) but in the end they ended with a portable binary with Python 3.11.9, brotli, ssl and asyncio for their work related project.[2]

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party...

Cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that you can write C programs that compile to a single executable that will run on (quoting the site) Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS

It all started from this post.

For this .args file, put one argument per line. This will run on start. You can use `/zip/mydepencency.anything` to read from files, but if you have an executable dependency you'll need to extract it first.

You can do this with any software you can compile with comsocc, by adding a call to LoadZipArgs[1] in the main function.

It'seasy to get started, your ideas will branch out as soon as you start playing with it.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/args/a...

FWIW there is ongoing work with good progress to add websocket support to redbean (https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/967)

The binary was compiled with Cosmopolitan Libc [0], and therefore the binary will execute natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and bare metal (BIOS boot).

I would call that portable.

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

will go on my "to try" list where i already have cosmopolitan [2]. my last setup (windows) was shiv + wine + nsis (used that as pyinstaller had some issues)[2]

[1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/141#issuecomment...

- cosmopolitan: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

Just compile regular Lisp with cosmopolitan. Then the same binary will run on windows, linux, mac, and BIOS. /s

This has been done with Lua, see: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/61

Cool. Somebody still needs to teach sscanf how to parse floats though. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/456

The code to do it would probably go in here: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/stdio/...

I mean, I know why it's not done (parsing floats correctly is a lot harder than it would at first seem to be) and I'm not complaining, more like hinting to some of the fine people that haunt this website who might find such a task interesting.

There's so much cool stuff in this post.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/download/3.0.1... is 213MB file which contains "fat binaries" (single binaries that execute on a bewildering array of hardware platforms and operating systems) for dozens of programs, including zip, curl, wget, python, ctags and even my own Datasette Python application!

It's absolutely wild that this works.

I just tried it out (on macOS). I downloaded and extracted that zip and did this:

    cd ~/Downloads/cosmos-3.0.1/bin